In Africa, France is the Gendarme of Europe against the USA and its acolytes

In Africa, France is the Gendarme of Europe against
the USA and its acolytes

France's military intervention in Mali
marks an important stage in the evolution of the relations between the main
great imperialist powers of the world. This war expresses the brutal worsening
of the imperialist rivalries that the economical capitalist crisis imposes upon
all national bourgeoisies. Unable to resolve the economical contradictions of
their system, each national capital, each State, each ruling class, is
inescapably thrown against all the others in a frantic and barbarous race for
its own survival on the world arena. The only and unique “response” to the
crisis that capitalism can bring is the perspective of generalized imperialist
war.

Workers, proletarians, and other
exploited, of France, Europe and elsewhere would be wrong to let themselves
convinced, and above all to let themselves carried, by the
« humanist » and « democratic » argumentation of a
« war against terrorism ». The terrorists they talk about, the
Islamic groups, have been created and maintained above all by the great powers
since now several decades via the financing and other supports from countries
like Saudi Arabia (which, we can be sure, works for Washington), Algeria, Qatar
and others. The « terrorists » and the barbarous are the ones and the
others ! Regarding terrorism, the great imperialist powers are like the
pyromaniac firemen who shout « fire ! » after having setting
it !

Through taking the initiative of a
military intervention in Mali in the name of « war against
terrorism », French imperialism takes back to its own account, and in an
other situation, the American policy of Bush, father and son, in Iraq –
initiative of a « moral » war for defending their sordid imperialist
interests in order to oblige their main rivals to side with them and to support
them. Fundamentally, France aims at taking advantage of the present weakening
of the American bourgeoisie – at the imperialist and economical levels – to
regain the positions it was losing in Africa to the benefit precisely of the US
and others powers like China – this later being incapable of intervening
militarily in this region. Besides the direct economical interests – control of
the resources and richnesses of this area –, the French bourgeoisie aims also
at carrying on its counter-offensive initiated with the war in Libya and to
thus ensure a generalized lining up of the African countries of the
Mediterranean surrounds to its imperialist policy. Already, it seems it has
achieved some of its goals.

The intervention in Mali is compelling
Algeria to give up its autonomous imperialist policy in the region – up to now,
it « allowed », not to say that it utilized for its own account, some
Islamic groups – and to go along with the French intervention. The
authorization of flying over its territory for the French air force has marked
its desertion of the Islamic groups. The reaction of these latter has been
brutal and bloody – taking hostages in In Amenas – and have sped up even more
the lining up of the Algerian bourgeoisie to French policy.

The American, English and Japanese
bourgeoisies were not mistaken and the bloody counter-attack of the Algerian
army to the Gas site gave them the occasion – a small one – to manifest their
opposition to the French intervention.

But the French bourgeoisie doesn't only
aim at regaining the lost influence in sub-Saharan and at consolidating the lining
up of the Mediterranean countries from North Africa behind its imperialist
policy. By defending its interests, it also defends the interests of the
bourgeoisies of “continental” Europe whose central axis is Germany. This
latter, with Italy, Spain, Belgium – just for quoting the main countries –
support politically and militarily the French military intervention. Certainly,
it is true that the French bourgeoisie attempts also to strengthen its
political weight within European Union. It is also true that it attempts to
re-equilibrate a little in its favor the German-French relationship through the
use of its military card, unique in Europe, and by pushing to a “European
defense” in which it could not but have a primordial role. Nevertheless it
remains that the major political fact is that the other European bourgeoisies
fully join the French bourgeoisie in its imperialist assertion of a continental
Europe against its rivals – the first one being the USA.

As the refusal of these countries to
participate to the 2nd American war in Iraq in 2003, the assertion of the
European imperialist interests brought by France on the African continent and
on the Mediterranean surrounds, as well as the discussion for a European
defense, do mark an additional moment of the dynamic of imperialist
polarization around two axis : an American one, the other German-European.

For the proletarians, for the workers,
there is nothing good in this dynamic of growing imperialist
confrontations : besides the wars and massacres, besides the use of terror
and terrorism – the medias and the bourgeois specialists have not cease to
proclaim that there are going to have still more bombings and taking of
hostages, included in the very heart of the main capitalist countries –, the
increasing militarization and the development of the armament production – the
setting up of a “European defense” for instance – will come yet to add to the
burden of capitalist crisis the working class must pay for at the cost of an
increased and exhausting exploitation, of unemployment and misery, of
repression and State terror. For the proletarians, nothing good but the
perspective of generalized war, of barbarity every where and sacrifices of all
kinds up to the final one, the one of their life.

Who is barbarous and terrorist ?
Capitalism ! It is up to the proletarians to oppose it by refusing the
sacrifices of all kind in order to end up with it and to set up their own
power. Only the proletarian revolution, the destruction of the capitalist State
and the exertion of working class' political power, in brief the class war
against the terrorist and barbarous bourgeoisie, will open the path for an
other society without misery and without war : Communism !

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